| | |  | Source (CD, DVD, Digita... | Home » » Nuforce - iCON Mobile - Headphone Amp or USB/DAC (Blue) | | | | | | | Description: | | The NuForce Icon Mobile is a portable headphone amp with a built-in USB DAC. With your iPod, the Icon Mobile uses its line-level audio input for improved audio quality. With your desktop computer, the Icon Mobile uses its USB input for a substantial upgrade in audio performance. The NuForce Icon Mobile gives you much better sound quality from mobile music players, smart phones, and personal computers. Mobile is a rechargeable, high-performance headphone amplifier with adjustable gain and stand-alone USB DAC offering support for Skype, Messenger or similar microphones. Due to cost constrains and power consumption considerations, mobile devices such as an iPod or smart phone do not incorporate high-performance headphone amplifiers. The Icon Mobile's optional iPod connector lets you bypass the iPod's volume control. The compact, lightweight Icon Mobile, which can drive a variety of headphones, connects to these devices via 3.5mm stereo input. Connected to a computer via USB, the Icon Mobile can drive a pair of powered, speakers. The external 3.5mm stereo input, when inserted, takes precedence over the USB DAC. This function lets you listen to music from sources such as an iPod without having to disconnect the Icon Mobile from the computer. The Icon Mobile sounds better for several critically important reasons. Among these are a heavily filtered power supply, a DAC that's been implemented for optimal performance, and a circuit designed to drive low-impedance headphones. Last but not least, unlike digital volume controls, the Icon Mobile's high-quality analog volume control does not compromise resolution. A gain select switch provides compatibility for a wide range of headphones and earphones. Headphones impedance between 16 ohm to 300 ohm are suitable for use with Icon Mobile. | | | Features: | |
• Two headphone/line outputs: 3.5mm 4-pin mini stereo (with mic) jack and 3.5mm 3-pin mini stereo jack for driving earphones and line-level sources
• A 3.5mm mini stereo external input.
• A Gain Select switch provides compatibility for a wide range of headphones and earphones.
• A high-quality rotary volume pot for maximizing USB and iPod signal-to-noise ratios.
• A built-in, rechargeable Lithium Ion battery with USB featuring a 2.5 hour charge-time for 13 hours of continuous playback at maximum power.
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Icon vs Icon MobileJul 31, 2009
By Mr. Alan Meier
"Pure Audio"
I have both the Icon and the Icon Mobile. The Icon Mobile is very nice but if you do not need portable I would get the Icon, the bass is significantly better than the Icon Mobile which lacks the current to drive headphones (if you use in ear you should be ok but I did not test with that), in all other respects they are the same. Sound quality is excellent on both. Their customer service is also excellent.
Highly recommended.
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